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Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, one of the country’s leading progressives, is the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. He will be the main dinner speaker on May 17 in Clinton, Iowa at the “Hall of Fame Dinner for 2014″ hosted by the Clinton County Democrats.

There will be a pre-dinner social hour with Congressman Dave Loebsack and Senator Jack Hatch, followed by dinner and a keynote address by Senator Sanders.
Bernie Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving 16 years in the House of Representatives. Born in 1941 in Brooklyn, Bernie was the younger of two sons in a modest-income family. After graduation from the University of Chicago in 1964, he moved to Vermont. Early in his career, Sanders was director of the American People’s Historical Society. Elected Mayor of Burlington by 10 votes in 1981, he served four terms. Before his 1990 election as Vermont’s at-large member in Congress, Sanders lectured at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and at Hamilton College in upstate New York. The Almanac of American Politics has called Sanders a “practical” and “successful legislator.” He has focused on the shrinking middle class and widening income gap in America that is greater than at any time since the Great Depression. Other priorities include reversing global warming, universal health care, fair trade policies, supporting veterans and preserving family farms. He serves on five Senate committees: Budget; Veterans; Energy; Environment; and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. He chairs the Veterans’ Affairs Committee.
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Ed Asner, known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant during the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant
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Rick Santorum is the former United States Senator from Pennsylvania. He was the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, making him the third-ranking Senate Republican from 2001 to 2007. Senator Santorum is currently seeking the Republican nomination to run for President in 2012.

Ms. Robin Lim is the executive director of Yayasan Bumi Sehat, the Healthy Mother Earth Foundation, based in Bali, Indonesia and the Medical director of the Bumi Sehat Tsunami Relief clinic in Indonesia. She operates two general health and maternal /child survival clinics, one in Aceh, the other in Ubud. The clinics deliver approximately 500 babies per year. She also operates a youth center in Bali. In 2006, Ms. Lim was awarded the Alexander Langer International Peace Award.

Former President Bill Clinton, the forty second President of the United States and husband of presidential hopeful Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton.
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